Tsukudajima from Eitai Bridge, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (1858): Art, History and Details

Tsukudajima from Eitai Bridge, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (1858) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This woodblock print is from the series of landscape views of Edo, present-day Tokyo, from Hiroshige’s late career. The series title is in the dark red rectangular cartouche on the upper right, while the name of the print is in the pink square. Although Tsukudajima and Eitai Bridge are important enough to merit mentions in the title, the island is tiny and in the distance at the mouth of the river, and only part of a bridge piling is visible. Hiroshige’s dramatic composition instead foregrounds the oar of a passing boat. Other vessels in the middle distance moored under the starry sky. Fishing boats with burning torches to attract fish ply the water both near the bridge and beyond the island.

Object facts

• Title: Tsukudajima from Eitai Bridge, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo
• Date: 1858
• Creator attribution: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Print
• Technique: color woodblock print
• Dimensions: Sheet: 36.5 x 24.5 cm (14 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1992.73

A detail from the museum

Moonlight casts a glow on the masts and ships at anchor, and stars dust the evening sky.

Collection credit

Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38-79.

View the collection record

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